Grim Humor Quotes

#1. Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.

Mike Berenstain

#2. In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

David Novak

#3. I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.

Robert Anton Wilson

#4. And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

Walter Brueggemann

#5. you live and the things you achieve and

Drew Barrymore

#6. This was insane. What was wrong with the world? Didn't they know that ghosts and supernatural powers where little girls helped their dads and uncles solve case didn't exist?
It was books. It was television shows and movies. They had desensitized the world.
Damn writers.

Darynda Jones

#7. I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.

Olesya Rulin

#8. It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

Joe Abercrombie

#9. People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Tracy McGrady

#10. There will be peace in the world when we will learn to understand that there are no you and me, there is only we in this world.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself.

Liesl Shurtliff

#12. You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

Geddy Lee

#13. I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Des Browne

#15. If only he had more humor, more life in him; that was what was needed here. Grim places needed lightening, not solemnity,

George R R Martin

#16. Treating people badly in reaction to how they treat us plays into the ugliness in the world and perpetuates it. Treating people well, not in the hopes that they'll change, because sometimes people never change, keeps our hearts and minds free from the ugliness.

Kim Holden

#17. Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

Edward McPherson

#18. I'm not like her. I don't steal people."
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing.
The silence made Victoria bristle. "Well, I don't.

Claire Legrand

#19. Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

Abbie Hoffman

#20. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death

Henry David Thoreau

#21. The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

John Redwood

#22. The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows ... I started to see some very young people in the audience ... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.

David Coverdale

#23. You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!

Jeaniene Frost

#24. I think there's a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren't great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don't have great experiences.

Chris Milk

#25. I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave?

Charlotte Bronte